Courses
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Slums in Architectural and Planning History
When and why did informality become an urban and architectural matter? Contemporary projects developed within precarious settlements and overcrowded areas are often interpreted as epitomes…
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Planning for the 21st Century: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
What role does design play in the planning process? How will demographic and other emerging trends influence how we design and plan for communities for…
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Territorial Intelligence: Towards an Evidence Based Design
Disciplines linked to cities are experiencing a period defiant to conventional theory, methodologies, programs and projects. In understanding that design is not solely an aesthetic…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in so…
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The Fourth Typology: Dominant Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1503: The Countryside as a City. It will provide the theoretical and…
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Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
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Mapping Cultural Space: Sites, Systems, and Practices Across Eurasia
Eve Blau, Julie Buckler, Kelly Ann O’Neill-Uzgiris
The seminar will explore the significance of cultural space as both an object and a tool of analysis, taking as its focus Eurasia, an area…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Risk and Resilience Proseminar
The Risk and Resilience Proseminar provides MDes students in this concentration with an introduction to discourses on risk and resilience that intersect with key issues…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving toward the…
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The Subject and the City
This seminar takes as its premise that a history and theory of the city cannot be known without an accompanying history and theory…
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The Forms of Water: Aquatic Landscapes in South America
South America can be analyzed as an aquatic territory: the three major river basins (Orinoco, Amazonas and the Plata), ground waters as the Guaraní…
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Urban Grids: Score for Designing the City
Framework: Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of recent…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of…
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Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This seminar presents selected texts treating architecture as a foundational phenomena of being in the world (Hegel and Heidegger), as well as the…
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Critical and Social Cartography
How might we identify the practices of responsive/responsible social and critical cartography, amid the proliferation of digital spatial media? To address this question, this…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are the opportunities for real…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world.
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Smart[er] Cities
The vision of a Smart City is currently fostered by a technologically-enhanced worldview of the urban condition, whereas traditional and modern communication infrastructure,…
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The Ephemeral City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism
ADV-09129 /The Ephemeral City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism Today, the scale and pace of contemporary urbanization challenges the notion of permanence as a…
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Urban Theory Lab, Project-Based Seminar: Extreme Territories of Urbanization
In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre anticipated a situation of \”generalized urbanization\” in which an \”urban fabric\” would be extended to encompass the entire planet.
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Discourse and Methods II
This is one of two seminars fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the PHD curriculum. The seminar is designed as an introduction to canonical…
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Critical Conservation as Social Activism: History, Theory, and Methods
Historic preservation strategies have been used by communities to achieve various social ends, ranging from staving off gentrification and restricting neighborhood development to developing…
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Planning for the 21st Century: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
What role does design play in the planning process? How will demographic and other emerging trends influence how we design and plan for communities for…
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Cities and Environmental Change
How can the practice of urban planning and design creatively engage communities to address the immediate and long-termer challenges posed by environmental change? We…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a basic course to introduce students to the American system for producing housing. We look at seven “actors”—consumers, developers, lenders, infrastructure providers,…
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Resource Extraction Urbanism II: Recasting the South American Hinterland
As current development pressures continue to transform the hinterlands at an unprecedented rate, it has become more crucial than ever for the design disciplines…
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The Fourth Typology: Dominant Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1601: Macau: Cross-border Cities. It will provide the theoretical and historical…
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Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…
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Digital Media for Design
The course will focus on the interrogation and acquisition of different emerging and established digital design approaches for designers. Students will gain knowledge of digital…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving toward the…
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Paths of Leisure and the South American Project
Within the first decades of the Twentieth century Oscar Niemeyer conceived innovative hostels in Minas Gerais Brazil. Riding the summits of the Avila above…
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Grids, Score for Designing the City
Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of recent urbanistic projects…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of the Treaty…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning & Urban Design: Hudson Railroad Yards, New York City
Richard Peiser, Bing Wang, A. Eugene Kohn
The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments. The…
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North Hollywood Field Study: Suburban Transit-oriented Town Center Redevelopment
North Hollywood’s town center sits at the junction of the subway to downtown Los Angeles and the bus lines serving the San Fernando Valley. North…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This…
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Urban Theory Lab Research Seminar
In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre anticipated a situation of "generalized urbanization" in which an "urban fabric" would be extended to encompass the entire planet. …
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Kinetic City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism
The research seminar will explore the phenomenon of temporal urbanism. The intention of the course is to expose students to the existing literature of…
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Discourse and Methods
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (other FAS Ph.D. students may participate with instructor\’s…
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The Subject and the City
This seminar takes as its premise that a history and theory of the city cannot be known without an accompanying history and theory of…
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Conservation History, Its Canons and Institutions
This course analyzes the canons and institutions that have traditionally guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. As such, the course situates conservation…
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Geo-Architecture
\”Geo-Architecture\”: Le Corbusier\’s Urbanism and the Territorial Challenge to Architecture (1911â\”1965) In a 1957 review of a lecture by Le Corbusier, a Swiss newspaper…
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The Cultural Invention of the “Shanty Town”
“Shanty towns” are not a concrete physical human construction but a concept. What they do have as a physical reality are a multitude of physical…
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Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This seminar presents selected texts from the history of conservation (Riegl, Viollet, Ruskin) together with theoretical treatments of the genealogy of collective memory (Halbwachs, Nora,…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in so…